Why would it have to actually go through the motherboard? Why couldn't you just have the motherboard end be separated into a data chunk and a connector that mates with a free power supply dealy. Only the drive end benefits from the convenience of having integrated power.
One of those is a mechanical device whose failure could result in the death of competitors by massive bleeding through high-speed contact with other competitors. The other is a passive part of the costume that doesn't have a mechanism to fail.
Really? You mind sending some of that over, then? All that makes it over here are crappy versions of American shows, and crappy versions of european shows which are copied by American studios with better film and sets.
For instance, the fact that the American version of "The office" is less funny than the original in no way implies that the british version is any good. And don't get me started on Dr. Who and the slate of comedies that seep over on PBS starring ex pythons or taking place in bawdy department stores.
Now, I think I can understand Borat: You guys were looking to create a boor detector, weren't you.
Amateur packet was also really big on 2m and 440mhz last I checked (admittedly about five years ago), which is well within your privileges as a tech. Also, with the code requirement having been nixed, what's stopping you from reaching for Extra?
It's a trebuchet, as can clearly be seen from the sling which holds the bowling balls. It also does not have an optimal sling length, but that just makes the robot itself all the more impressive.
Well what if you could easily and legitimately earn all of that money?
The problem is not that it's too difficult to "earn" the "money" to get the items, but with the whole paradigm of grinding away for money & stats to get things. In fact, it's not difficult at all. Just time consuming. There isn't any more depth to farming gold in WoW than there is to stringing beads in a costume jewelry factory. And, mind, stringing the beads would get you rewards in WoW significantly faster, even, if you use the goldsellers.
One thing that might make it more interesting is to do something about the fact that there's no in-game downside to the grind. Smash boars for 30 hours, you gain XP, and gold/hides, but lose nothing but time. If the stats were linked to percentage of time exercising them* instead of total time spent exercising in general, it might be a little bit more interesting. As an added benefit, it would be impossible for anyone to become the uber-everything, but many could become the best-<something specific>.
*not pure percentage, of course, but weighted for recent activity, "training" modifiers from equipment, skills, location effects, spell effects, astronomical configurations, some kind of interaction between a total XP (higher max stats) and character age modifier (reduced max stats) where you can either have a character run its course to eventually die of old age or take some kind of magical youth restorer, but at the cost of XP and/or skills. And probably a host of other variables which I'm not creative enough to declare, and would turn pure minimaxing into an activity requiring a degree in math.
They could also improve things by replacing the RNG crafting system with minigames, depending on the items crafted, and which affect the stats (and appearance if the developers are ambitious) of the items crafted. That way, at least, there would be some point to it other than just another tick-mark on the "I'm cool" sheet.
The point is that increasing play-time by sheer number of operations is easier to program, but players are going to start to look for ways around it pretty quick. From a purely economic point of view, though, WoW has pretty well proven that, at least at the moment, you don't have to go any deeper than that to make billions, as long as you have a relatively clean interface and compelling and vivid visual effects.
I dunno. I've hard NY strip is "the" steak. I'm partial to ribeye and top round. Though that's probably because it's not common in the supermarkets and the common cooking technique in restaurants appears to be, "Cook the hell out of it on high heat to really char those edges."
Pretty much any cut can be flavorful and tender if you don't over-cook it. Even filet. "Well done" is about as far from "done well" as you can get.
If your ethical system involves doing the most good for the greatest number of people, you're going to have to do a lot of calculations like that. I'd say, depending on how the settlement process works, it's at worst, amoral. At best, it's actually the most ethical course of action possible. Coldly, calculatingly ethical.
But I admit it would be tempting if they could guarantee a perfect filet mignon every time.
This is actually a myth. There's no such thing as a "perfect" filet mignon. It's the least flavorful cut, but also the tenderest. You can cook the hell out of filet and it still won't be too tough to eat.
Conclusion: Filet mignon is the steak cut for people who hate steak, but love steak sauce.
This is nothing like the two-digit date problem of Y2K. The conversion process shouldn't be anywhere near as complicated, since 32bit dates are just an arbitrary subset of a larger bit-count dates. There are really only two cases, signed and unsigned, and casting things into larger containers isn't exactly all that difficult: if unsigned, stick a bunch of zeros on the front. If signed, stick a bunch of zeros on the front, then swap the previous MSB with the new MSB.
Furthermore, C programmers haven't exactly become a rare commodity in the intervening time like with COBOL. Y2K wasn't a problem, so why should we expect Y2K+38 to be a problem?
Wow, that sucks. I always thought being an extra would be kind of a lark, but you make it sound pretty petty and sometimes grueling. Is there no one just "vacationing" as an extra?
They appear to have actually achieved at least one patent. Their news page contains a link to a description of "quantum technology" Which appears to be an abstract consisting of a jumble of barely related words, a reference to an otherwise unknown "Gendlin effect." and a child's sketch of a design for magnetic core memory.
However a google patents search uncovers an actual patent! Which is basically the same, but with more child's sketches, such as one of a transistor, and a page that appears to be practice isometric drawings, and several pages of black & white photoshop cloud noise renderings.
Well, they do have to defend their trademarks, at the least, so maybe they're not so much miffed at a fund raiser (and nothing in the article indicates that BMG is a charitable organization...), but at the fact they weren't even asked.
Gaa, when will slashdot let us put some basic filtering in our comment preferences. I've never seen a post with that word in it that was worth reading, and they're almost as prevalent as that stupid minicity dealy was a couple of weeks ago.
If server side filtering is too expensive, then maybe they could shove a couple of routines in with the javascript includes for client-side regex filtering.
Ha Hah hah, those idiots in Boston, getting all bent out of shape over a mere mysterious box with a seemingly innocuous cartoon light display surreptitiously bolted to a freeway support. I mean, there's no way someone who intended to collapse a freeway, injuring or killing hundreds and basically shutting down the poorly transportation-planned city, would attempt to disguise a bomb as a playfully menacing advertisement.
Or that brilliant, but cynical marketeers would capitalize on the reaction to get a little free publicity, or that they'd try to cover for their actions by painting city officials as foolishly overreacting.
I'd always assumed they had some kind of automatic, psuedorandom synthesizer, pretty much set to blast out bass roughly in rhythm with the average heart beat of the revelers for the purpose of inducing endorphin release.
Between that and the way-overdriven speakers, I have to wonder if DJs in clubs ever cared about fidelity. I know their patrons don't: they spend hours in a box with 150 dB sound and no ear protection.
I don't mean that power companies should be able to gouge consumers for whatever they can get. Obviously the retail price should be regulated to not exceed the wholesale price by more than a small fixed amount.
That's not obvious at all. The price should reflect the market realities all the time. The price must be allowed to rise to market clearing levels.
Now, if you want to prevent "gouging" (if there even is a such thing), Then you could put limits on how much production is allowed to vary when certain conditions are met, but if they're at max production (and "max production" includes purchasing from other states as necessary or available) and there is still demand for more, then by definition, the prices aren't high enough.
If you use *any* petroleum, it's not carbon neutral. It could be carbon-better, which corn hasn't been demonstrated to be. If the claims of the article are true, then expect to see some demo farms proving the process. Should such demonstrations fail to materialize however, the technology would be somewhat suspect.
Evolution is a pretty poor theory, though. If I were being semantic, I'd probably go with 'Hypothesis' as a descriptive title, as it really can't be tested in any useful time. I mean, after all our millennia of twisting wolves into various shapes from Great Danes to teeny tiny yippy chihuahuas, they're still not separate enough that they're separate species. A better experiment than that, I'm not aware of, though IANAEB.
Which is not to say that it's a wrong theory. Occam's razor, as in, the complete lack of contradicting evidence combined with quite a bit of indirect evidence all points to it as being the likely course of events. The point is that science education is not about rote learning of "established facts." Therefore, the shortcomings of evolution should absolutely be a part of science education.
Now, the ideas of creationism probably shouldn't be taught in the science class, neither should history and poetry. A separate cosmology class, or possibly a philosophy class that includes epistemology would better handle it, though I'm not sure it would be easy to teach in this context in a way that the proponents of ID would get on board with. There is also no need to present the material on evolution in a way that specifically discredits any religion.
"Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, your parents are slack-jawed hillbillies who uncritically believe everything from guys with colorful robes when everyone knows you should only believe guys in white robes, heathen." really isn't the best way to go about any educational plan.
That's true, IFF you aren't using the same or more oil to produce the ethanol that other people use to "replace" oil. So, the proof that ethanol is a viable replacement is simple and obvious: A demonstration of full-scale seed to tank production with zero oil as input.
The farm equipment must run on ethanol. The processing facility must run on ethanol. The fertilizer must be produced using no oil feedstock. No oil or oil products must be consumed during production. And no shenanigans like pretending a fuel cell that consumes aluminum is really a water-powered cell and not an aluminum battery. If you do that, and people complain, you must realize that they aren't "raising the bar." They're realizing that the bar was insufficiently specific to begin with. All energy inputs must be accounted for and subtracted from the ethanol recovered.
If considering only carbon neutrality, leeway may be given if the energy inputs are from non-carbon-based sources, but they must not be so large that "replacement"-scale production would require carbon-based sources to be economically viable.
From the title, I was expecting some kind of either general, or special case improvement on search tree "geometry." Which I think we can agree would have been far more exciting than the, still interesting, CG improvement.
Sounds like they're not real clear on how windows works anymore either. They don't have "application data" (uh...dirs?) directories in every user's "documents and settings" (home, really) just for giggles.
Now they DO handle "documents and settings" stupidly (in XP. I'll try vista when I have a computer that can run it). What do you mean it's not advisable to mount a separate/home drive? Brilliant idea putting the mount-point information in the documents and settings tree. That way, segregating user data from operating system data is not trivially easy, thus making the "reinstall windows from scratch" when you get into trouble trick far less simple.
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Why would it have to actually go through the motherboard? Why couldn't you just have the motherboard end be separated into a data chunk and a connector that mates with a free power supply dealy. Only the drive end benefits from the convenience of having integrated power.
Why are clap skates OK, but Spyder suits aren't?
One of those is a mechanical device whose failure could result in the death of competitors by massive bleeding through high-speed contact with other competitors. The other is a passive part of the costume that doesn't have a mechanism to fail.
Really? You mind sending some of that over, then? All that makes it over here are crappy versions of American shows, and crappy versions of european shows which are copied by American studios with better film and sets.
For instance, the fact that the American version of "The office" is less funny than the original in no way implies that the british version is any good. And don't get me started on Dr. Who and the slate of comedies that seep over on PBS starring ex pythons or taking place in bawdy department stores.
Now, I think I can understand Borat: You guys were looking to create a boor detector, weren't you.
Amateur packet was also really big on 2m and 440mhz last I checked (admittedly about five years ago), which is well within your privileges as a tech. Also, with the code requirement having been nixed, what's stopping you from reaching for Extra?
It's a trebuchet, as can clearly be seen from the sling which holds the bowling balls. It also does not have an optimal sling length, but that just makes the robot itself all the more impressive.
Which one? The human who slowly turned into a giant fly? or the unshown, but presumed by symmetry fly that slowly turned into a tiny human?
"select start"? How kind of you to share.
The problem is not that it's too difficult to "earn" the "money" to get the items, but with the whole paradigm of grinding away for money & stats to get things. In fact, it's not difficult at all. Just time consuming. There isn't any more depth to farming gold in WoW than there is to stringing beads in a costume jewelry factory. And, mind, stringing the beads would get you rewards in WoW significantly faster, even, if you use the goldsellers.
One thing that might make it more interesting is to do something about the fact that there's no in-game downside to the grind. Smash boars for 30 hours, you gain XP, and gold/hides, but lose nothing but time. If the stats were linked to percentage of time exercising them* instead of total time spent exercising in general, it might be a little bit more interesting. As an added benefit, it would be impossible for anyone to become the uber-everything, but many could become the best-<something specific>.
*not pure percentage, of course, but weighted for recent activity, "training" modifiers from equipment, skills, location effects, spell effects, astronomical configurations, some kind of interaction between a total XP (higher max stats) and character age modifier (reduced max stats) where you can either have a character run its course to eventually die of old age or take some kind of magical youth restorer, but at the cost of XP and/or skills. And probably a host of other variables which I'm not creative enough to declare, and would turn pure minimaxing into an activity requiring a degree in math.
They could also improve things by replacing the RNG crafting system with minigames, depending on the items crafted, and which affect the stats (and appearance if the developers are ambitious) of the items crafted. That way, at least, there would be some point to it other than just another tick-mark on the "I'm cool" sheet.
The point is that increasing play-time by sheer number of operations is easier to program, but players are going to start to look for ways around it pretty quick. From a purely economic point of view, though, WoW has pretty well proven that, at least at the moment, you don't have to go any deeper than that to make billions, as long as you have a relatively clean interface and compelling and vivid visual effects.
I dunno. I've hard NY strip is "the" steak. I'm partial to ribeye and top round. Though that's probably because it's not common in the supermarkets and the common cooking technique in restaurants appears to be, "Cook the hell out of it on high heat to really char those edges."
Pretty much any cut can be flavorful and tender if you don't over-cook it. Even filet. "Well done" is about as far from "done well" as you can get.
Ah, but is this really an immoral policy?
If your ethical system involves doing the most good for the greatest number of people, you're going to have to do a lot of calculations like that. I'd say, depending on how the settlement process works, it's at worst, amoral. At best, it's actually the most ethical course of action possible. Coldly, calculatingly ethical.
Conclusion: Filet mignon is the steak cut for people who hate steak, but love steak sauce.
This is nothing like the two-digit date problem of Y2K. The conversion process shouldn't be anywhere near as complicated, since 32bit dates are just an arbitrary subset of a larger bit-count dates. There are really only two cases, signed and unsigned, and casting things into larger containers isn't exactly all that difficult: if unsigned, stick a bunch of zeros on the front. If signed, stick a bunch of zeros on the front, then swap the previous MSB with the new MSB.
Furthermore, C programmers haven't exactly become a rare commodity in the intervening time like with COBOL. Y2K wasn't a problem, so why should we expect Y2K+38 to be a problem?
Wow, that sucks. I always thought being an extra would be kind of a lark, but you make it sound pretty petty and sometimes grueling. Is there no one just "vacationing" as an extra?
They appear to have actually achieved at least one patent. Their news page contains a link to a description of "quantum technology" Which appears to be an abstract consisting of a jumble of barely related words, a reference to an otherwise unknown "Gendlin effect." and a child's sketch of a design for magnetic core memory.
However a google patents search uncovers an actual patent! Which is basically the same, but with more child's sketches, such as one of a transistor, and a page that appears to be practice isometric drawings, and several pages of black & white photoshop cloud noise renderings.
Well, they do have to defend their trademarks, at the least, so maybe they're not so much miffed at a fund raiser (and nothing in the article indicates that BMG is a charitable organization...), but at the fact they weren't even asked.
Gaa, when will slashdot let us put some basic filtering in our comment preferences. I've never seen a post with that word in it that was worth reading, and they're almost as prevalent as that stupid minicity dealy was a couple of weeks ago.
If server side filtering is too expensive, then maybe they could shove a couple of routines in with the javascript includes for client-side regex filtering.
Ha Hah hah, those idiots in Boston, getting all bent out of shape over a mere mysterious box with a seemingly innocuous cartoon light display surreptitiously bolted to a freeway support. I mean, there's no way someone who intended to collapse a freeway, injuring or killing hundreds and basically shutting down the poorly transportation-planned city, would attempt to disguise a bomb as a playfully menacing advertisement.
Or that brilliant, but cynical marketeers would capitalize on the reaction to get a little free publicity, or that they'd try to cover for their actions by painting city officials as foolishly overreacting.
What maroons.
"club music" is recorded?
I'd always assumed they had some kind of automatic, psuedorandom synthesizer, pretty much set to blast out bass roughly in rhythm with the average heart beat of the revelers for the purpose of inducing endorphin release.
Between that and the way-overdriven speakers, I have to wonder if DJs in clubs ever cared about fidelity. I know their patrons don't: they spend hours in a box with 150 dB sound and no ear protection.
That's not obvious at all. The price should reflect the market realities all the time. The price must be allowed to rise to market clearing levels.
Now, if you want to prevent "gouging" (if there even is a such thing), Then you could put limits on how much production is allowed to vary when certain conditions are met, but if they're at max production (and "max production" includes purchasing from other states as necessary or available) and there is still demand for more, then by definition, the prices aren't high enough.
If you use *any* petroleum, it's not carbon neutral. It could be carbon-better, which corn hasn't been demonstrated to be. If the claims of the article are true, then expect to see some demo farms proving the process. Should such demonstrations fail to materialize however, the technology would be somewhat suspect.
Evolution is a pretty poor theory, though. If I were being semantic, I'd probably go with 'Hypothesis' as a descriptive title, as it really can't be tested in any useful time. I mean, after all our millennia of twisting wolves into various shapes from Great Danes to teeny tiny yippy chihuahuas, they're still not separate enough that they're separate species. A better experiment than that, I'm not aware of, though IANAEB.
Which is not to say that it's a wrong theory. Occam's razor, as in, the complete lack of contradicting evidence combined with quite a bit of indirect evidence all points to it as being the likely course of events. The point is that science education is not about rote learning of "established facts." Therefore, the shortcomings of evolution should absolutely be a part of science education.
Now, the ideas of creationism probably shouldn't be taught in the science class, neither should history and poetry. A separate cosmology class, or possibly a philosophy class that includes epistemology would better handle it, though I'm not sure it would be easy to teach in this context in a way that the proponents of ID would get on board with. There is also no need to present the material on evolution in a way that specifically discredits any religion.
"Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, your parents are slack-jawed hillbillies who uncritically believe everything from guys with colorful robes when everyone knows you should only believe guys in white robes, heathen." really isn't the best way to go about any educational plan.
That's true, IFF you aren't using the same or more oil to produce the ethanol that other people use to "replace" oil. So, the proof that ethanol is a viable replacement is simple and obvious: A demonstration of full-scale seed to tank production with zero oil as input.
The farm equipment must run on ethanol. The processing facility must run on ethanol. The fertilizer must be produced using no oil feedstock. No oil or oil products must be consumed during production. And no shenanigans like pretending a fuel cell that consumes aluminum is really a water-powered cell and not an aluminum battery. If you do that, and people complain, you must realize that they aren't "raising the bar." They're realizing that the bar was insufficiently specific to begin with. All energy inputs must be accounted for and subtracted from the ethanol recovered.
If considering only carbon neutrality, leeway may be given if the energy inputs are from non-carbon-based sources, but they must not be so large that "replacement"-scale production would require carbon-based sources to be economically viable.
From the title, I was expecting some kind of either general, or special case improvement on search tree "geometry." Which I think we can agree would have been far more exciting than the, still interesting, CG improvement.
What do you mean "joe" can't create custom trees?
Sounds like they're not real clear on how windows works anymore either. They don't have "application data" (uh.. .dirs?) directories in every user's "documents and settings" (home, really) just for giggles.
/home drive? Brilliant idea putting the mount-point information in the documents and settings tree. That way, segregating user data from operating system data is not trivially easy, thus making the "reinstall windows from scratch" when you get into trouble trick far less simple.
Now they DO handle "documents and settings" stupidly (in XP. I'll try vista when I have a computer that can run it). What do you mean it's not advisable to mount a separate