The idea that weight purely depends on intake and activity is as insane as the idea that weight is purely genetic. Many factors weigh it (no pun intended) and there is no generic "recipe" that applies to all humans. This MIT thing is not going to be a solution for every obese person, but it may well help some to control their weight better.
Costs of an "everybody the same" system could be much lower. Less overhead for inspectors, services, etc. Any employment would benefit the unemployed immediately (starting to work 1 or 2 days a week is actually a financial loss to somebody on welfare).
Some people will game the system (probably the same that are currently gaming the welfare system), and these will more likely go unpunished. For a community as a whole, this may actually be cheaper than trying to go after these hopeless cases.
It's not clear whether it'll work, but it might. The Dutch Utrecht-experiment will be interesting.
Running Netbeans with a WAMP-server with ~10GB database, 4GB has significant performance problems for me. 8GB runs smooth. Haven tried 16GB as I don't have any need to add more memory.
Obviously, memory requirements are totally dependant on what you do with it. Games run fine in 4GB, because games are designed to run with 4GB, because 4GB is the current norm. If 8GB becomes the norm, games will start requiring 8GB.
I've worked at a company where people were required to be at work for 40 hours (not counting lunch) each week. The company did not have any systems to check this and they suspected people cheated. So they implemented a time registration system which required employees to justify their working hours using a feedback system. Turns out most employees were doing well over 40 hours without noticing, so the employees started leaving for home earlier. A few months later the feedback system was disabled, so employees no longer got reports of the registered hours. By then, the employees had grown accustomed to monitoring their working hours and kept going home on time instead of too late. A few months after that, the entire system was removed. In the end, the whole ordeal managed to catch a handful of cheating employees and taught ~1,500 honest employees to work less hours.
I'm guessing most people in rural areas live there because they either were born there and simply see no good reason to leave, have rural jobs or like the peace and quiet.
You mention laws limiting placement, not banning them altogether. I wouldn't be surprised if New York had a law limiting placement of antennas on the statue of liberty either. "Ruins the view" is a pretty good reason to limit corporate interests.
If the idea is that the threat of longer prison sentences would discourage pirates, then one must assume pirates will switch to theft and fraud at some point. "disproportionate" is the right word. This is simply a government kowtowing to it's corporate overlords.
You don't judge a book by it's cover, never mind it's font. These parts are necessary, but only in that they help convey the actual art of the text.
It's like movies; spectacular special effects and a chart-topping musical score don't make a good movie. Good gameplay makes a good game, regardless of the quality of the graphics and sound.
No thanks, we don't want our games designed by PHB's. Go back to your own job of creating... uhm... what do PHB's actually create?
Game art is already designed by designers and artists. Game music is composed by musicians and composers. Game design is created by people who understand that mere game art and music alone does not make a good game.
Considering the size of the gaming industry, I guess plenty of people are happily playing games designed by those "spotty nerds".
I've had that sig well before that porn pulp was published. I've been waiting for some somebody to make that joke ever since and you are the first to do so. Too bad the timing makes no sense.
It just means they have zero known defects and who knows how many unknown defects.
Anybody that claims "unhackable" knows too little about computer security to make reliable claims about security. If they were to say "with no known attack surface", I would trust the claim a lot more.
If Linux can support proprietary drivers for graphics cards, any GPL software can support proprietary add-ins. As long as these add-ins don't require the recompilation of the host's sourcecode with proprietary code, in which case it isn't really how most people would define an "add-in".
Completely unnecessary. If they just put a device on the hoverboard which eliminated gravitational effects, it'd hover without any magnetism at all! Alternatively, they could just invent thrust generators running on a perpetuum mobile energy source. Requiring somebody to build laws-of-physics breaking technology to make your "invention" work makes you sound like an industrial designer.
Why would the GPL license be a problem for corporate environments? Unless you change the code and distribute the changed version outside your organisation, the license really doesn't matter much.
There still are. It's the native encoding on big IBM hardware, which means you're probably triggering EBCDIC-based code every time you communicate with your bank, insurance company or other large company.
Even rebuilding / recreating hitchbot won't reproduce the creative moment when some person had the idea to make a hitch hiking robot.
IMHO, Hitchbot is mostly a social game, without lofty artistic goals. Rebuilding it from the original parts at the place where it was destroyed seems entirely within the implied "rules" of the game. Also "We can rebuild him...we have the technology" is quite fitting for a robotic US roadtrip.
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The idea that weight purely depends on intake and activity is as insane as the idea that weight is purely genetic.
Many factors weigh it (no pun intended) and there is no generic "recipe" that applies to all humans.
This MIT thing is not going to be a solution for every obese person, but it may well help some to control their weight better.
This.
Costs of an "everybody the same" system could be much lower. Less overhead for inspectors, services, etc.
Any employment would benefit the unemployed immediately (starting to work 1 or 2 days a week is actually a financial loss to somebody on welfare).
Some people will game the system (probably the same that are currently gaming the welfare system), and these will more likely go unpunished.
For a community as a whole, this may actually be cheaper than trying to go after these hopeless cases.
It's not clear whether it'll work, but it might. The Dutch Utrecht-experiment will be interesting.
Epson seems to be inching into the right direction: http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
this was done to serve the customer better
I'm not familiar with this "serve" sexual position by which you mean to fuck me in the ass.
In what way is this a prank if your "friend" doesn't ever get notified he even has an account there?
Running Netbeans with a WAMP-server with ~10GB database, 4GB has significant performance problems for me.
8GB runs smooth. Haven tried 16GB as I don't have any need to add more memory.
Obviously, memory requirements are totally dependant on what you do with it.
Games run fine in 4GB, because games are designed to run with 4GB, because 4GB is the current norm. If 8GB becomes the norm, games will start requiring 8GB.
I've worked at a company where people were required to be at work for 40 hours (not counting lunch) each week.
The company did not have any systems to check this and they suspected people cheated.
So they implemented a time registration system which required employees to justify their working hours using a feedback system.
Turns out most employees were doing well over 40 hours without noticing, so the employees started leaving for home earlier.
A few months later the feedback system was disabled, so employees no longer got reports of the registered hours.
By then, the employees had grown accustomed to monitoring their working hours and kept going home on time instead of too late.
A few months after that, the entire system was removed.
In the end, the whole ordeal managed to catch a handful of cheating employees and taught ~1,500 honest employees to work less hours.
They may be very vocal, but they are few.
I'm guessing most people in rural areas live there because they either were born there and simply see no good reason to leave, have rural jobs or like the peace and quiet.
You mention laws limiting placement, not banning them altogether. I wouldn't be surprised if New York had a law limiting placement of antennas on the statue of liberty either. "Ruins the view" is a pretty good reason to limit corporate interests.
If the idea is that the threat of longer prison sentences would discourage pirates, then one must assume pirates will switch to theft and fraud at some point.
"disproportionate" is the right word. This is simply a government kowtowing to it's corporate overlords.
And with the speed of RAM back then, you would have been almost halfway to using all of that 32GB by now.
To devs, the gameplay itself is the art..
You don't judge a book by it's cover, never mind it's font. These parts are necessary, but only in that they help convey the actual art of the text.
It's like movies; spectacular special effects and a chart-topping musical score don't make a good movie. Good gameplay makes a good game, regardless of the quality of the graphics and sound.
No thanks, we don't want our games designed by PHB's. Go back to your own job of creating... uhm... what do PHB's actually create?
Game art is already designed by designers and artists. Game music is composed by musicians and composers. Game design is created by people who understand that mere game art and music alone does not make a good game.
Considering the size of the gaming industry, I guess plenty of people are happily playing games designed by those "spotty nerds".
How obvious was is that it was indeed a flaw, and not just some "hidden" feature exposed through the publically distributed HTML and javascript?
Cisco might not need to. They are in the unique position of benefiting from more video streaming.
Somehow you sounded disappointed.
I've had that sig well before that porn pulp was published.
I've been waiting for some somebody to make that joke ever since and you are the first to do so.
Too bad the timing makes no sense.
It just means they have zero known defects and who knows how many unknown defects.
Anybody that claims "unhackable" knows too little about computer security to make reliable claims about security.
If they were to say "with no known attack surface", I would trust the claim a lot more.
Why do you think they're not releasing it?
If Linux can support proprietary drivers for graphics cards, any GPL software can support proprietary add-ins.
As long as these add-ins don't require the recompilation of the host's sourcecode with proprietary code, in which case it isn't really how most people would define an "add-in".
Completely unnecessary. If they just put a device on the hoverboard which eliminated gravitational effects, it'd hover without any magnetism at all!
Alternatively, they could just invent thrust generators running on a perpetuum mobile energy source.
Requiring somebody to build laws-of-physics breaking technology to make your "invention" work makes you sound like an industrial designer.
Why would the GPL license be a problem for corporate environments?
Unless you change the code and distribute the changed version outside your organisation, the license really doesn't matter much.
There still are. It's the native encoding on big IBM hardware, which means you're probably triggering EBCDIC-based code every time you communicate with your bank, insurance company or other large company.
Not being able to "hear" is a disability.
Even rebuilding / recreating hitchbot won't reproduce the creative moment when some person had the idea to make a hitch hiking robot.
IMHO, Hitchbot is mostly a social game, without lofty artistic goals. Rebuilding it from the original parts at the place where it was destroyed seems entirely within the implied "rules" of the game. Also "We can rebuild him...we have the technology" is quite fitting for a robotic US roadtrip.
What exactly are you trying to prove?
I think you're doing your nation a disservice by trying to defend it.