Agreed! They do this in hospitals all the time. There are systems for remotely monitoring the health of individuals in an ICU, and x-rays and MRIs are commonly read by persons overseas.
If it on smart phones, then it is not in laboratory stage. If I had a small head-mounted device in my hands today, I could immediately start coding real, practical uses for it.
I suppose your group could have had the term creationist first and the IDers have merely subverted it for their means
Yes, that is definitely the case. The terms "creationism" and "creationist" have been around for generations. Persons who believe the universe was created != persons who believe the universe was created in 7 days.
I fly hang gliders, and even we consider the Bernoulli effect to be overstated. This is mentioned in Hang Gliding and Paragliding Magazine periodically.
I have statistics that show that creationism combined with 'god guiding evolution' is a shared belief by an overwhelming majority of Americans.
Many Christians believe in Creationism, and identify themselves as Creationists, but don't believe in the literal 7 days and still accept evolution. Make sure you don't lump creationists and biblical literalists (I just made-up that term) into one group.
I find it funny that people talk about how Canadians and Swedes have free health care. People seem to think that paying $1 for a candy bar costs $1, but paying $1 in taxes for the government to give you the candy bar costs $0.
This is modded funny, but it really is true. Everyone I know uses either their phone company, or their cable company. Do 3rd-party ISPs even exist any longer?
Part of me wants this to happen now. There's no technological reason this stuff can't be reasonably secured. It is pure rampant stupidity. Computer security practices today are comparable to security guards leaving the back door unlocked so they can take a smoke break and get back in. The only thing that will fix this stuff is constant rampant security violations.
Worst-case, people just come to accept it and privacy dies. I guess that is quite a price to pay...
but Square Enix, like any company, is probably more concerned with what makes them money.
Agreed: the issue is money. My guess is that something that was already 98% completed, for free, with a guaranteed fan base, is likely to be profitable.
The next thing you know, every wannabe hacker starts bombarding SE with licensing requests, and SE needs a submissions department.
True. And some studios actually have started doing that. Take a look at the IGF awards for an example. That is how games like Portal came to be.
This is what should lead to micropayments. You can look at the ads, or pay a fraction of a cent to remove them. That seems fair, and gives people a free alternative.
Back in the days of Atari, when everything was timed according to the vsync, it made sense to distinguish PAL from NTSC gaming. Now, it all goes through an engine that can render at any variable FPS.
Is a PAL PS3 and different from an NTSC PS3 these days? It seems like it should merely be a firmware setting and a different solder connection.
John Carmack was a genius at making video game engines. He pushed the frontiers or technology and visualization. I am a real fan, having played his games back to the days of Commander Keen. But he is clearly not a game designer.
There's lots of quotes from John Carmack that are just like the ones above - he likes simple action games.
Left 4 dead need a back story. We have all seen the typical zombie back story 1000 times. What makes the game is that it is totally immersive. It puts you into the zombie world and you really feel the tension and the fear. When you get stuck, an NPC says something like "let's try up this ladder" or "the boat is here, let's go!" Everybody knows what they are doing in L4D, and where they are going and why. It needs no explanation.
Compare that with Doom, which gave you a gun and some demons, but it did need a back story. The situation was new and unfamiliar. And the enemies changed, and you were going somewhere - but you never knew where or why.
I don't have a citation, but I do find the comment believable.
1) As a graduate student, you probably don't *really* know what poor is. Yeah, I know you probably eat nothing but Ramen noodles all week, but you aren't paying for them with food stamps.
2) "without dependents" - That's probably a big portion of the 40%. People who make 10k/year and have 4 children.
I bet somebody could whip out a calculator and a W-2 form and figure out what income level corresponds to 0 taxes.
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Agreed! They do this in hospitals all the time. There are systems for remotely monitoring the health of individuals in an ICU, and x-rays and MRIs are commonly read by persons overseas.
If it on smart phones, then it is not in laboratory stage. If I had a small head-mounted device in my hands today, I could immediately start coding real, practical uses for it.
I suppose your group could have had the term creationist first and the IDers have merely subverted it for their means
Yes, that is definitely the case. The terms "creationism" and "creationist" have been around for generations. Persons who believe the universe was created != persons who believe the universe was created in 7 days.
I fly hang gliders, and even we consider the Bernoulli effect to be overstated. This is mentioned in Hang Gliding and Paragliding Magazine periodically.
I thought temperature == touch as well, but you can sense your own internal temperature separately from surface temperature.
I have statistics that show that creationism combined with 'god guiding evolution' is a shared belief by an overwhelming majority of Americans.
Many Christians believe in Creationism, and identify themselves as Creationists, but don't believe in the literal 7 days and still accept evolution. Make sure you don't lump creationists and biblical literalists (I just made-up that term) into one group.
And bread. I didn't believe it until I started checking the labels.
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I find it funny that people talk about how Canadians and Swedes have free health care. People seem to think that paying $1 for a candy bar costs $1, but paying $1 in taxes for the government to give you the candy bar costs $0.
Government does not exist to use taxes to fund worthy causes.
Just to add: this is called a non-falsifiable theory.
This is modded funny, but it really is true. Everyone I know uses either their phone company, or their cable company. Do 3rd-party ISPs even exist any longer?
Used games don't make Publishers any money.
Let me refer you to an excellent rebuttal to that point that is part of this very same discussion.
And since solar panels degrade after time, and have a lifespan of about 20 years, that makes it even more difficult.
To make that work, you would need to have tracks on the roads.
lol. True.
Part of me wants this to happen now. There's no technological reason this stuff can't be reasonably secured. It is pure rampant stupidity. Computer security practices today are comparable to security guards leaving the back door unlocked so they can take a smoke break and get back in. The only thing that will fix this stuff is constant rampant security violations.
Worst-case, people just come to accept it and privacy dies. I guess that is quite a price to pay...
but Square Enix, like any company, is probably more concerned with what makes them money.
Agreed: the issue is money. My guess is that something that was already 98% completed, for free, with a guaranteed fan base, is likely to be profitable.
The next thing you know, every wannabe hacker starts bombarding SE with licensing requests, and SE needs a submissions department.
True. And some studios actually have started doing that. Take a look at the IGF awards for an example. That is how games like Portal came to be.
Why doesn't Square Enix hire the developers and license it? If it is 98% complete, and it is decent, then it seems like everybody wins.
This is what should lead to micropayments. You can look at the ads, or pay a fraction of a cent to remove them. That seems fair, and gives people a free alternative.
Abusing GPS would be the same as abusing normal 'tailing' techniques. Ie following you around all day until they catch you speeding.
It would be different in that one requires manpower, the other does not.
Back in the days of Atari, when everything was timed according to the vsync, it made sense to distinguish PAL from NTSC gaming. Now, it all goes through an engine that can render at any variable FPS.
Is a PAL PS3 and different from an NTSC PS3 these days? It seems like it should merely be a firmware setting and a different solder connection.
Heh.
John Carmack was a genius at making video game engines. He pushed the frontiers or technology and visualization. I am a real fan, having played his games back to the days of Commander Keen. But he is clearly not a game designer.
There's lots of quotes from John Carmack that are just like the ones above - he likes simple action games.
Left 4 dead is a great example.
Left 4 dead need a back story. We have all seen the typical zombie back story 1000 times. What makes the game is that it is totally immersive. It puts you into the zombie world and you really feel the tension and the fear. When you get stuck, an NPC says something like "let's try up this ladder" or "the boat is here, let's go!" Everybody knows what they are doing in L4D, and where they are going and why. It needs no explanation.
Compare that with Doom, which gave you a gun and some demons, but it did need a back story. The situation was new and unfamiliar. And the enemies changed, and you were going somewhere - but you never knew where or why.
I don't have a citation, but I do find the comment believable.
1) As a graduate student, you probably don't *really* know what poor is. Yeah, I know you probably eat nothing but Ramen noodles all week, but you aren't paying for them with food stamps.
2) "without dependents" - That's probably a big portion of the 40%. People who make 10k/year and have 4 children.
I bet somebody could whip out a calculator and a W-2 form and figure out what income level corresponds to 0 taxes.